On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 13:14 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Practically speaking, it would add an extra burden to the maintainers, > > who already do not have enough resources to deal with all the issues. > > Again, the reason we don't carry non-upstream patches in Firefox has > > nothing to do with the branding issue. It's because we don't have the > > resources to maintain non-upstream patches in Firefox. > > > I wish people would stop repeating this particular bit of justification for > the issue of bundling libraries. I can see it for other suggested patches > for firefox but in the case of bundled libraries, this is work that we > require of all packages because there's security ramifications for our > product, the Fedora distribution by not unbundling. That wasn't my intention. The debate seemed to have broadened from the issue of the bundled libraries out to become the tired old 'Firefox is non-free oh noes' thread again. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
